The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-10
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
Suggestions of the Utah Commits
sion to the Registration
Officers.

municipal election to be held at Sal
Lake City on the second Monday il
February, 1888.
~ 1t shall be the duty of the city
registration officer, prior to the first day
of November, 1887, to apply to the
county clerk Of Salt Lake County for &
certified copy of the registry list as last
returned OF all the precincts within thu
corporate limits of said city.
a. Said registration officer, upon
the receipt of said lists, shall By himself
or by deputy, and before the third
dwelling house in each precinct, and
make careful inquiry If any person
whose name is on said registration list
has died or removed from the precinct.
or is otherwise disqualified as a voter,
and If so to erase the same therefrom
or whether any qualified voter resides
therein whose name is on said registra-
ton list, and if so he shall ascertain
upon what ground said person claims
to be voter, and shall require any
such person entitled to vote and desir-
ing to be registered to take and sub
scribe to the following oath:
TERRITORY OF UTAH, SC
| COUNTY OF. ..........:....:... Ss'
I,...-::............ being duly sworn Tor
affirmed), depose and say that I am over
twenty-one years of age, that have resided
| In the Territory of Utah for six months last
past and in this precinct for one month i'm
mediately preceding he date hereof; and
| that am native-born Tor naturalized, as
the case may be- citizen of the United
States; that my full name is.............;
that l am 49,. years Of age; that my
pace of business is ...............;t that 1
am a (eingle orr married man; that the name
| OF my lawful wife is. ..................an and
that will support the Constitution of the
| United States, and will faithfully oDey the
| laws thereof, and especially will obey tn
| act OF congress approved March %, 1882
! entitled IAN Act to amend section 1852 of
the Revised Statutes of the United States in
reference t. bigamy and for other pur-
poses" and that will also obey the Act of
| Congress Of March 8, 1887, entitled "An Act
! to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend
United States, in reference to bigamy and
for other purposes, approved March
p, 1882" in respect of the crimes
in said act defined and forbidden,
and that will not, directly or indirectly,
aid or abet. counsel or advise any other
person to commit any of said crimes de-
fined by acts of Congress as polygamy,
bigamy, unlawful cohabitation, incest,
adultery ana IOrnlcdtlOn.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this
49,. -. day Of .1SS
Deputy registration officer for. ...........
Precinct, ..........-. County.
Although the person applying to have his
name registered as a voter may have made
the foregoing oath, yet, if the registrar shall,
for reasonable or probable cause, believe
that the applicant is then, in fact.
bigamist, polygamist or living in unlawful
cohabitaCion or associating or cohaoiting
polygamously with persons of the other
sex; or has been convicted of bigamy,
polygamy, unlawful cohabitatior, incest,
adultery or fornication, in our opinion the
registrar may require the applicant to make
the following additional affidavit;
TERRITORY OF UTAH, &C
COUNTY OF ....-...i
I,......... further swear Tor affirm, that
am rot bigamist, polygamist, or living in
unlawful cohabita ton, or associating or CO.
habiting poiygamously with persons of the
victed of the crime of bigamy, polygamy,
unlawful cohabitation, incest, adultery or
fOrnication.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
day Of 18S
Deputy Registration officer for. 49,. Pre-
cinct, County.
NoTE.-Those parts of the above forms in
relation to being "sworn or affirmed, and as
to being "native-b born or natural1zed
citizen" as to being "single or married
man." should be changed by erGSure or line
drawn through the words so as to be applica-
BILE to the case.
Upon the receipt of such affidavit the
registration officer shall place the name
ofsuch voter upon the registry list of
said precinct.
81 1t shall also be the duty of the
registration officer, in person or by
deputy, during the week commencing
the fourth Monday (Which will be the
26th day of December next), at his
office, to enter on the registry list the
name of any voter which may have |
been omitted, on such voter appearing |
and taking the oath aforesaid.
al Voters removing from one pre-
cinct to another may appear before the |
registration officer at any time previous |
to the second Monday (Which will be
January 8, 1885, and have their names
erased from the registry list OF the pre-
cinct in which they may have been reg
istered, and entered upon the list of the
precinct to which they may have re-
moved.
(51 Upon the completion of the lists,
the registration officer shall prepare
triplicate lists, in alphabetical order, for
each precinct, containing the names of
all registered voters, one of which lists
hall be flied in the Office Of the city re-
corder on or before the second Monday
OF January, 1888; one list to be posted
up in each precinct at least fifteen days
before the day of election, at or near the
place of election, and the other list
transmitted by him to the Judges OF
election Of the several precincts for use
at the polls; and the osths of registered
voters, Immediately after the day OF
delivered to the clerk OF the
probate court of Salt Lake County.
(6.) This Commission will appoint a
chief registration officer for said city,
and one deputy registration officer for
each municipal precinct, who shall
commence the work of registration on
December 1st, 1887.
a. The registration officer shall
cause notice of the time and places OF
voting and the number and kind OF ON
GERS to De elected, to be posted up IN
each municipal precinct, at least fifteen
days before the election, and setting
forth therein that the polls viii open at
one hour after sunrise and continue